{"id":5567,"date":"2009-01-14T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T17:46:47","slug":"wrestling-with-starbucks-capital-conscience-cappucino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/01\/14\/wrestling-with-starbucks-capital-conscience-cappucino\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling with Starbucks: Capital, Conscience, Cappucino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest011409\/2009_01_14_fellner.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest011409\/2009_01_14_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3037\/2871032970_5a51e0ac65.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"wrestling with starbucks\" \/>While most workers will get time off next Monday to observe Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s birthday, Starbucks baristas will be busy serving coffee and won\u2019t even get holiday pay. Working conditions at the mega-caf\u00e9 chain often do not live up to the ideal.  In late December a New York judge ordered the reinstatement and back wages for three baristas fired for union organizing.  The company claims it is not anti-union, rather it says it is \u201cpro-partner.\u201d  Starbucks has been a popular boycott target for those protesting gentrification, deforestation, monopoly practices and questionable definitions of fair-trade. A new book, \u201cWrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino,\u201d takes a hard look at the company and its practices. Author Kim Fellner goes inside the boardrooms, cafes, and coffee farms to research the book and investigates the disparity between the company\u2019s global economic imperialism and its social humanist goals. According to Fellner, Starbucks isn\u2019t necessarily worse than companies like Wal-Mart and Dunkin\u2019 Donuts, but it does blur the line between \u201cprinciples and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Kim Fellner, author of &#8220;Wrestling with Starbucks: Capital, Conscience, Cappucino&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program While most workers will get time off next Monday to observe Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s birthday, Starbucks baristas will be busy serving coffee and won\u2019t even get holiday pay. Working conditions at the mega-caf\u00e9 chain often do not live up to the ideal. In late December a New York judge ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}